DA: Heroin use violates probation, leads to prison

Staff report

Published 5:23 pm, Thursday, June 19, 2014

ALBANY — A Lake Luzerne woman who failed to meet the terms of her probation — including admitting to taking heroin — will go to prison, Albany County prosecutors said.

In February 2013, Rebecca Reed, 35, drove through a stop sign, into a snow bank and utility pole in the town of Rensselaerville, then punched one of the emergency personnel who responded, officials said. She later pleaded guilty to felony aggravated unlicensed operation and misdemeanor DWI and was sentenced to weekends in jail and probation.

After the sentence she admitted the heroin use, failing to report to the county jail and failing to report her change of address to the probation department. Reed was sentenced this week to 1 to 3 years in state prison after pleading guilty to violating the terms of the felony probation, according to District Attorney David Soares' office.